Dr. Meinzer (she/her) has a Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Connecticut and previously directed the British Marshall Scholarship in New England. She also directed a suite of fellowships intended to diversify the professoriate, including post-baccalaureate fellowships for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and the Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty at the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation). As a former Boren Fellow (West Bank) and Critical Language Scholarship (Arabic) awardee, she enjoys helping students connect their passion and purpose to fellowships. Dr. Meinzer served as a Fulbright Program Adviser and mentored hundreds of students in her role as Director of National and International Fellowships at The University of Texas at El Paso, a Hispanic-serving top research university. Her students have won Fulbright, Boren, NSF-GRFP, Gilman Scholarships and other honors. Dr. Meinzer held a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship at Denison University, an American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Center for Cultural Power, and a Dissertation Fellowship at UCONN’s Humanities Institute. Her writing on international development, climate change, and culturally responsive mentoring appears in academic publications, and in Jadaliyya, Alliance Magazine and Inside Higher Ed.

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